The results of the war in the area of Guangzhou Prefecture have been basically counted.

The British-led four-nation joint expeditionary force had more than 40,000 people, and the Chinese Imperial Empire's captive army annihilated more than 20,000 navy, more than 8,000 marines, more than 1,400 navy prisoners, and more than 7,200 marines.

Ross, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, Hober, deputy commander of the Navy, and Jadoso, commander of the Portuguese Expeditionary Force, were captured, and Seymour, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, John of the Dutch Expeditionary Force, and Aujeoglu, commander of the Ottoman Expeditionary Force, were all killed in the battle, and their bones were gone. There are many more, especially naval officers, whose names cannot be verified. Including the specific number of navy killed in battle, it is impossible to count the specific number, a fire burned clean, more were smoked by poisonous smoke and died by the river, and there was no one in a hundred miles who could escape like He Bo.

Not to mention the more than 8,600 prisoners, not to mention the 14 warships and dozens of troop carriers captured, the food, medicine, gunpowder, guns, shells and other war materials of the British Expeditionary Force on Hong Kong Island made Feng Yunshan smile a little, not to mention that the 40,000 soldiers of the expeditionary force had a total salary of 5.2 million pounds for several months, which undoubtedly made Feng Yunshan make a fortune.

The domestic war has been completely won, and Feng Yunshan has focused more on the South Seas and the northwest and northeast regions.

Not long after Feng Yunshan returned to Shengjing, Shi Dakai sent an urgent telegram from Kokand City to warn him, but it was the more than 30,000 Cossack cavalry of the Tsarist army from Orenburg and the Aral Sea to the Bukhar Khanate and Lake Balkhash that had just been controlled by the Chinese Empire. Shi Dakai led the soldiers of the captive army stationed in Kokand and Kashgar to resist, but because he was worried that Tsarist Russia would increase his troops again, he urgently reported to Feng Yunshan for reinforcements. At the same time, Tan Shaoguang, commander of the 8th Infantry Division, and He Lu, commander of the 9th Division, also sent urgent reports to Feng Yunshan and the General Staff respectively, requesting that troops be sent to reinforce the Northeast Region. There, Tsarist Russia sent nearly 20,000 troops from Novosibirsk to attack the newly occupied Baikal and Outer Northeast regions of the Chinese Empire.

However, because the northwest and northeast borders are vast and sparsely populated, and the army of Tsarist Russia seems to be fierce, but the number is not very large, the number of captives led by Shi Dakai in the northwest and Tan Shaoguang He Lu in the northeast is comparable to the enemy's army, Feng Yunshan is not in a hurry, the only worry is that Tsarist Russia will continue to increase troops, in that case, Shi Dakai and they can only take a defensive position, and they will inevitably occupy a lot of territory by Tsarist Russia.

However, Feng Yunshan knew in his heart that for a bitter cold place like Siberia, if there were no immigrants to settle down in the past, no matter how many troops were stationed, it was meaningless, and no matter how many troops were stationed, it could not mean that you had completely occupied it. On the contrary, logistical supplies and expenses will drag you down, and the garrison cannot rely on local self-sufficiency, and it will not be able to occupy it for long time by relying on long-distance transportation of supplies from the interior alone. The only way to do this is to build a few forts, hoard supplies in large quantities, and slowly encourage immigrants to expand the territory, and finally connect the newly occupied territories to achieve the goal of complete occupation and digestion.

Therefore, Feng Yunshan has long had a plan in his heart, and he is also in the process of immigrating step by step.

The news that made Feng Yunshan most excited came from the war report from the General Staff from Nanyang.

After the South Ocean Fleet and the Pacific Fleet cleaned up the remnants of the British Expeditionary Fleet and the Portuguese Expeditionary Fleet, which was lucky enough to escape, they then occupied Hong Kong Island, captured a huge amount of it, and pursued the fleeing Hong Kong Island garrison all the way, destroying the few warships that remained at the Hong Kong pier at the last of them. After the arrival of the first part of the Oriental Fleet, which had rushed from Ryukyu and Fujian to Hong Kong and the mouth of the Pearl River, the Oriental Fleet took over the defense, and the two main forces of the Pacific Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet went directly to the South Seas to recover the Straits Colonies of Saigon, Kuching, Pontianak, Batavia, and Singapore, which had been captured by the British Expeditionary Fleet a while earlier.

However, what attracted his attention the most was the battle report about the results of the battle between Li Kaifang's group and the 8,000 British infantry who rushed into the Johor Sultanate from Singapore to attack.

But so far, the final outcome of the battle has not been returned. Maybe the war is over at this point, it's just that the distance is far away and the message is not so fast. Thinking like this, Feng Yunshan let go of most of his heart after receiving that the three places in the straits such as Singapore, Malacca, and Penang were all captured by the Pacific Fleet and the South Ocean Fleet. It should not be long before the good news arrives when nearly 30,000 soldiers are mobilized to force the British infantry fleeing into the rainforests of the Sultanate of Johor to the point of almost exhaustion.

Although Zuo Zongtang and Mao Qi, two senior members of the General Staff, were still dealing with post-war affairs in Guangzhou Mansion and were not by Feng Yunshan's side, Feng Yunshan couldn't help but start thinking about the next step of military expansion.

This defeat of the British-led European Joint Expeditionary Invasion Force can be said to be a major victory for the Chinese Empire, and from then on, the whole world will officially regard the Chinese Empire as a world power on an equal footing with the European powers, and no one will dare to ignore half of it. Feng Yunshan can speculate that not only Britain, Tsarist Russia, but even the whole of Europe did not expect that he would defeat the British expeditionary force so easily and quickly. After learning the whole news, the whole world will adopt a different strategy towards the Chinese Empire. And the Tsarist Russia, which sent troops with the British, is likely to withdraw its troops once the news of the defeat of the British army is received. Unless Britain attacks again, it is believed that no other country wants to bear the pressure of war with the Chinese Empire alone.

For the Chinese Empire, not only did it rise strongly in the ranks of the world's great powers, but it also had to expand its actual control territory. This battle took advantage of the opportunity to defeat the combined invading forces of Britain and the Netherlands and Portugal, and it was necessary to recover the losses well.

Before the war, in order to cooperate with Feng Yunshan's plan to burn the Pearl River, the General Staff showed weakness to the enemy, took the initiative to shrink, and almost completely abandoned several major stronghold cities in Nanyang that were occupied in the early stage, and even interrupted the pace of continuous immigration expansion, and now the war is decided, although there are still 8,000 British soldiers in the Sultanate of Johor have not been eliminated, and it does not affect the overall situation, and the European forces in the entire Nanyang area have been cleared, especially the British forces, which have almost all been eradicated, and it is a good time for the Chinese Empire to expand on a large scale.

Feng Yunshan had already calculated, and without waiting for Zuo Zongtang and Mao Qi to come back, he directly asked the other personnel of the General Staff who stayed in Shengjing to formulate a plan, the first step was to control the entire Nanyang area, and the most important thing was to drive the Dutch forces that still occupied Sumatra out of the East Indies sphere of influence and take over Sumatra. As for those local Malay sultanates, Feng Yunshan didn't pay attention to them, these local natives were still in a slave society or even a primitive society, and being able to give them food was already the greatest gift to them.

For these wilderness places of primitive jungle, Feng Yunshan's strategy is to encourage slow immigration from China to reclaim the wasteland, and after more than ten years or one or two generations of efforts, completely turn the entire East Indies and other South Seas into a place for the Chinese to survive and reproduce. In fact, Feng Yunshan didn't care about these places, whether to directly occupy the territory that became the Chinese Empire, like Ninan Province, or indirectly control Burma and Siam, because he knew that as long as the Chinese Empire was strong, Burma and Siam would sooner or later become provinces of the Chinese Empire, and if the Chinese Empire declined, just like the Manchu Qing Dynasty in history, Sakhalin Island and Uriya Sutai would also be divided. In the end, the key is whether the ethnic groups living in these lands are the Chinese people. Of course, it can't be a white-eyed wolf like Xingjiapo in the later generations, in any case, it must also be controlled by the control of the central power of the Chinese Empire.

In the second step, Feng Yunshan wanted to take the opportunity to incite India's rebellion again, and even directly marched into India under the banner of retaliation for British aggression, revenge or pursuit of the enemy army. If you contact your former Sikh captive in advance, the current Sikh king, I believe that after he learns the news of the defeat of the British army, his attitude will change and come back to his feet. After all, if he really sent troops to help him, it was likely that he would become the new Sikh Empire that unified most of Hindustan.

It's just that Feng Yunshan is weighing whether to send troops to India or not. Inciting Indian princes to rebel is completely different from sending troops directly to India, and the stimulation of Britain, the world's leading power, is completely different.

Today's India, Britain has completely regarded it as its own territory, but among the many British colonies, it is more important than the Canadian province in North America, and it is the most important overseas territory of Britain, and it contributes huge material wealth to Britain every year, so the world's first power will never give up the interests of India.

Therefore, to touch India is to touch the fundamental interests of Britain, and it will definitely go all out and fight hard. This is something that the Chinese Empire, which is now just beginning to rise and is short of time for development, can hardly afford.

Don't look at the fact that the capture army annihilated the British expeditionary force in one fell swoop, in fact, the other party was still careless, there was no good intelligence detection at all, and their own unexpected burning of the Pearl River led to the annihilation of the expeditionary fleet, losing the fleet's escort and transportation scheduling, and the rest of the land soldiers became passive and lone troops, and the infantry who lost their retreat and logistics soon lost the courage to fight and surrendered. Therefore, the victory of defeating the expeditionary force this time was somewhat accidental and lucky, Feng Yunshan did not think that the next large-scale attack of the British army could defeat the other party as easily, of course, it was difficult for the British to organize a large-scale expeditionary force to attack in a short time. However, if it sends troops to India, it is tantamount to taking away the fat that has already reached its mouth, and Britain will definitely be desperate for everything, and even give up huge benefits to tempt France and other European and American powers to send troops to attack itself.

Therefore, Feng Yunshan was very hesitant whether he should order troops to India at this opportunity.